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West Northamptonshire Council

Taxi and Private Hire Vehicle Testing Stations

Repair & MaintenanceCPV 50000000 50100000
ValueEst. £2,800,000
Awarded17 Jan 2025
Published25 Nov 2024
RegionEast Midlands

Est. £2,800,000 (range £2.5m–£4m, from 5 previous notices)

Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£2.8mtotal contract value
median £130k
this tender£0£4.8m

This is a large award for Repair & Maintenance — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 15,278 valued Repair & Maintenance tenders in our corpus.

The brief

West Northamptonshire Council (WNC) is seeking to establish an approved supplier list of experienced and qualified contractors to provide MOT and Certificate of Compliance testing for licensed Taxi and Private Hire Vehicles.

Contractors must carry out vehicle testing in accordance with the WNC Taxi and Private Hire Policy and conduct MOT tests in compliance with the standards set by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA).

All testing must be conducted at the contractor's approved Vehicle Testing Station (VTS) within the West Northamptonshire area.

To ensure adequate coverage across both rural and urban locations, WNC is inviting applications from DVSA-approved MOT testing stations situated in different geographical areas of the Council's jurisdiction.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

Contractors must carry out vehicle testing in

Contractors must carry out vehicle testing in accordance with the WNC Taxi and Private Hire Policy and conduct MOT tests in compliance with the standards set by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA).

02

All testing must be conducted at

All testing must be conducted at the contractor's approved Vehicle Testing Station (VTS) within the West Northamptonshire area.

Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named in obligation language, 0 mentioned. Each one is quoted from the notice.

DVSAsays mustRegulator registrations
Contractors must carry out vehicle testing in accordance with the WNC Taxi and Private Hire Policy and conduct MOT tests in compliance with the standards set by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA).

Matched against the notice text, so this is a floor — the tender pack will demand things the notice never mentions. “Says must” means the quoted sentence itself used obligation language; anything ambiguous is left as a mention.

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Source & provenance
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Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
IT-493-396-WNC00000396
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